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Feeling Betrayed, Far-Right Extremists Have A New Message For Trump: ‘Get Out Of Our Way’
ILLUSTRATION: REBECCA ZISSER/HUFFPOSTFor months, President Donald Trump’s message to his supporters was clear:The election was being stolen from him, and they needed to fight to take it back.So on January 6, during a Trump-promoted rally to “Stop the Steal,” thousands…
Battlegrounds: highly skilled Black African professionals on racial microaggressions at work
Highly skilled Black African professionals report experiences of racial microaggressions at work are common and are expressed in a variety of ways. My recent study published in the British Journal of Social Work has found workplaces can be “battlegrounds for…
Amazon’s Parler ban sets off a free speech showdown for Big Tech
Amazon's decision to boot conservative chat site Parler from its hosting platform, on the heels of Twitter and many other services banishing President Trump, brings three decades of hot argument over online speech to a boil. Why it matters: Four…
12 Funny Celebrity Zoom Moments We Couldn’t Have Anticipated 12 Months Ago
Zoom has become a hotly contested part of our lives this year: love it or hate it, we’ve all had to log on to a video call at one point or another.For some of us, it’s caused burnout, and there’s…
When A.I. Becomes Creative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7BnJb30CcThe first 200 people to click my link https://brilliant.org/COLDFUSION/ will get 20% off their annual Premium subscription!General Adversarial Networks or GAN's are the new kids on the block, but they're already doing some interesting things.--- About ColdFusion ---ColdFusion is an…
Editors’ Picks: 8 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From ’50 Women Sculptures’ to a Nicolas Party Chat
Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the global health crisis, we are currently highlighting events and digitally, as well as in-person exhibitions open in the New…
Ways To Celebrate NAIDOC Week In 2020: ‘Always Was, Always Will Be’
NAIDOC Week is held in Australia each year to acknowledge and celebrate the history, diverse culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.While usually held in July, NAIDOC Week has been pushed back this year due to COVID-19,…
Gagosian Goes Netflix? The Mega-Gallery Is Creating Original Content That Pairs Artists With Luminaries Like Malcolm Gladwell and Jeff Tweedy
As galleries continue to adapt to life under social distancing, Gagosian is launching a brand new livestreaming event series. Gagosian Premieres, as the new initiative is called, will feature virtual gallery tours, discussions, and musical performances pairing gallery artists such as…
Labor Board Backs Engineers Who Were Fired for Unionizing
The National Labor Relations Board is joining the fight by a group of engineers who want to form a union at a small San Francisco software company. The NLRB Tuesday issued a complaint against Lanetix, alleging the company violated federal…
The tech angle in dogs, mac and cheese and working out
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mixtape, the podcast where Megan Rose Dickey and I, Henry Oliver Pickavet, talk about some of the stories of the week that we feel like talking about. This week it was dogs, working out and mac…
The public finance opportunity
If you’re a certain age, it’s likely that you’ve never given a second thought to buying a municipal bond or the process of bond buying, even if you’ve intuited, rightly, that’s it’s an intentionally opaque business. Yet there could be…
How Sonos Is Building the Audio Internet
Nick Millington had just started to feel like a successful software engineer. It was early 2003, and at age 26 he already had a fruitful career at Microsoft. He feared his one-bedroom apartment in Redmond, Washington—filled with a mishmash of…
7 Ways to Group Video Chat While You Wait for That FaceTime Update
This past spring, Apple demoed a version of FaceTime that would support group video chat for up to 32 people at once. The update was supposed to come with the official release of iOS 12 this fall—but it turns out…
Blind loyalty
John Chen Contributor There is a secret behind every open office in Silicon Valley — and it isn’t the drain on productivity. Tech companies have been the vanguards for pushing corporate culture forward toward “radical transparency.” Mark Zuckerberg works in…
